The New Day’s Big WWE Return Happened After You Turned Off Smackdown

Ever since the Superstar Shake-Up, Smackdown Live has been airing promo videos touting the impending arrival of The New Day, who have been off TV since The Revival “broke” Kofi Kingston’s ankle. Kofi has been cleared to return to action, which means The New Day have been cleared to return to our televisions.

Pretty much everyone assumed The New Day would make their Smackdown Live debut on Tuesday night, especially since The Usos retained their Smackdown Tag Team Championship against Breezango at Sunday’s Backlash pay-per-view, and the runway was clear for a new babyface team to challenge for those titles.

However, The New Day never popped up on Tuesday, and Breezango got another extremely entertaining shot at the tag titles. Unfortunately, Breezy and Dango came up short once again, seemingly putting a definitive end to that storyline. The New Day DID finally arrive on Tuesday, but it wasn’t on Smackdown Live. Instead, they stopped by as surprise guests on WWE Network’s Talking Smack after-show.

They arrived with a new colorway of Booty-O’s, and news about Xavier Woods’ new baby (it gets the hiccups and cries a lot). There was a lot of bantering with Shane McMahon and Renee Young, which is a very comprehensive preview of the bantering that will be in full effect once The New Day returns for real.

It was great! Though did anybody notice how drunk Renee and Shane were?! Making errors left and right, dancing in their chairs, trying to lift up Big E’s shirt… now that was awesome!

I’ve been following their drunkcapades for weeks. They had red solo cups until producers made them hide em off screen one episode. So they switched to blue solo cups and now official Talking Smack boose mugs!

I know you guys miss DB, but I think Glossy Eyed Shane and Stutterin Renee are my favorite co-hosts.

New Day will definitely benefit from being on SD. I think if we’ve seen one thing lately it’s that NOBODY is likeable on Raw. Honestly, how many faces on Raw really make you look forward to cheering them? Smackdown has always seemed more like that day of school where you had a substitute teacher and everyone could relax a little. I think that’ll do them wonders.

I’m less wild about this than most because there’s so many people who aren’t getting exposure on Smackdown (hey, maybe don’t devote a half hour at the top of the show to setting up the half hour match and the end of the show and leave no time for folks like American Alpha) that another group that’s going to be great, but great doing a lot of stuff that probably isn’t the thing I like to see the most (actual wrestling) isn’t going to make things better.

I really worry that New Day are going to monopolize a ton of time on SDLive and we’ll get less Breezango (and the rest of the tag division) and continue to only have one women’s segment a night. It’s a show that to me is really struggling with only being 2 hours long (which shouldn’t be a problem- but as a I noted above, last night they virtually devoted half the show to announcing a match that could have been announced in 5 minutes/setting up a tag match that didn’t matter).